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Yes. Just not recently.

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They actually are not going up, if you look at costs relative to GDP. They are actually falling. But that doesn't make cataclysmic-warning headlines, does it?

If you look at the costs versus GDP, they are actually declining...

We're balkanized. We're not Americans. We're White Americans. Black Americans. Gay Americans. Christian Americans. But we're not Americans.

I agree. It turns out that every person acts in the interests of their tribe. Some of those are racial/ethnic, some religious, some sexual, and some based in class, region, or caste. But we are not united. America is a giant shopping mall with mall cops and a welfare system. It has fallen apart.

I have enjoyed Billy Roper's writings on balkanization in America.

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Intel said that that bug didn't matter to plebian users either https://gigglebytes.wordpress....

Any opinions why one should prefer Mint over Ubuntu or Cinnamon over Mate?

Development on both MATE and Cinnamon is mainly done by developers on the Linux Mint project. The basic purpose of Linux Mint is "Ubuntu with a better desktop".

The Mint project was not particularly famous until Ubuntu switched from the GNOME desktop to Unity. At that point, Mint became the top distribution on DistroWatch. (I just checked and it still is.)

The modern GNOME desktop has its fans, but it's completely different than anything else. If you want to use Linux with "classic" desktop, Mint is your best choice.

As to MATE vs. Cinnamon: MATE is based on the original GNOME 2 desktop, and includes a level of UI polish that I personally appreciate. Cinnamon is a set of customizations to the modern GNOME desktop to make it act in a more classic way. Arguably Cinnamon is the future, but every time I try it out, I get annoyed with something or other, so I'm still running Mint with MATE.

As an example of what I mean by a "classic" desktop: Mint provides windows that have minimize, maximize, and close buttons; and a "window list", a panel widget that has one button in it for each window you have open. Modern GNOME, in contrast, provides only a close button, and provides no window list at all; instead it provides a totally unique way to group a few windows together, which is called a "workspace".

When GNOME 3.x first shipped with the GNOME Shell, it offered a new way of working and at the same time it was very difficult to customize it to work more like GNOME 2.x used to work. That's why Mint became such a big deal. I think these days it's easier to make a GNOME 3.x desktop work the way you like, but it's still more convenient go grab Mint Cinnamon if what you want is a "classic" desktop running on GNOME 3.x.

Murdered by Antifa:

Joann Ward, 30;
Emily Garza, 7;
Bryan Holcombe, 60
Karla Holcombe, 58;
Annabelle Pomeroy, 14;
Brooke Ward, 5.
20 others.. and more. Just search instead of trolling the same thing every time.

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I don't know every country which has it, but I can tell you that it's that way here in Iceland, too. And Finland. Denmark is the only Nordic which doesn't use it.

After Sweden introduced their ban on purchasing sex, violence against sex workers reportedly went up

This is a lie based around this report. The short of it: Since the law passed, the following reports of changes have occurred:

Verbal abuse: +17%
Hair pulling: +167% (but still only a third of those surveyed reported any hair pulling)
Being struck with a fist: -38%
Rape: -48%.

Because when you consider them all together and equal, it's a net increase of 7% (52% to 59%), that's "violence is up". But most of those cases are verbal abuse. The most extreme examples, such as rape, went down by half.

Street prostitution decreased by 50% and indoor prostitution by 16% since the law was passed. The rate of prostitutes seeking help from the police decreased by 41%, but rather than this being some sort of "afraid of the police" situation (they're not legally liable for anything), rates of seeking help from ProSentret decreased by 54% - an even greater amount. The simple fact is, severe violence dramatically decreased since the Nordic Model was adopted.

The estimates on the number of prostitutes operating in Sweden dropped significantly after the law was passed, and are 1/10th the number as in (lower population) Denmark. A study by Durex found that Sweden had the lowest percentage of the population (among 34 countries surveyed) of men paying for sex, at 3%. But as for:

as did the number of "johns" going to Denmark for sex.

Obviously, just on the face of this, this is stupid. The concept that you'll get the same rate of people visiting prostitutes when they can get it where they live vs. where they have to drive for hours (Stockholm to Copenhagen = 10 hours round trip) and pay ~$50 each way to cross the bridge (let alone the super-expensive Nordic gas prices) is nonsense. Furthermore, the rate of people going to Denmark to buy prostitutes has not increased. A large majority of the population in countries with the Nordic model strongly support it, not just "politicians". Only 25% of Swedish men and 7% of Swedish women support repealing it.

Classically, Slashdot has "News for nerds, stuff that matters"- this seems to be in the first category. One could argue that based on the classic word cloud associations this is closer to "geek" than "nerd" https://slackprop.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/on-geek-versus-nerd/, but the overlap between those two has always been pretty high.

The funny thing is, if you look under the article, about half the commenters are essentially saying that.

"Lots of buildings in Chicago have roped-off sidewalks in the winter. This is no big deal!"

The funny thing is it’s no big deal to anyone that isn’t a dumbass moron.

Relying on actual humans for the design and production of goods is bad. Let's just use humans as living wallets. https://realagenda.wordpress.c...

"Microsoft Beer 10. After heavy and sustained use, a reboot into the porcelain throne may be required."

Throne? The Germans have specialist throw-up porcelain (Kotzbecken) for that.

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This estimation can be wrong in many ways, but the point remains: languages do die all the time.

An perhaps useful bit of context is that in bij 2020 the Chinese government want to implement the Social Credit system, which will give every citizen a single score that represents how well behaved they are, and which will influence the ability to get a job with the government, get a cheap loan, etc. Both Tencent and Alibaba group have been running large scale reputation scoring pilots. Alibaba's version is called "sesame credit" and is based more on your purchase data, while Tencent's version is based more on what you say and share online.

This would be a logical continuation of that development, and is another signal that the Chinese government is using their mega companies as a testing ground for things that will eventually become state operated.

I do doubt that this will be anything more than a pilot, although a large scale one. In the end the Chinese government will want to run this system themselves, as they do with the credit system.

Sources:
- Planning document for the social credit system: https://chinacopyrightandmedia...
- BBC on the Sesame Credit pilot: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

An perhaps useful bit of context is that in bij 2020 the Chinese government want to implement the Social Credit system, which will give every citizen a single score that represents how well behaved they are, and which will influence the ability to get a job with the government, get a cheap loan, etc. Both Tencent and Alibaba group have been running large scale reputation scoring pilots. Alibaba's version is called "sesame credit" and is based more on your purchase data, while Tencent's version is based more on what you say and share online. Over 100.000 Chinese have been boasting about their scores online. This would be a logical continuation of that development, and is another signal that the Chinese government is using their mega companies as a testing ground for things that will eventually become state operated. I do doubt that this will be anything more than a pilot, although a large scale one. In the end the Chinese government will want to run this system themselves, as they do with the social credit system. Sources: - Planning document for the social credit system: https://chinacopyrightandmedia... - BBC on the Sesame Credit pilot: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

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Atlantis.
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Even if all ISPs are completely patriotic, it's hard to distinguish foreign interference from grassroots movement. You only need to look at a few recent examples, e.g. Heart of Texas. Before ISPs and Facebook realize that they have been foreign sponsored, it would have been too late after the damage is done.

And seeing how the ISPs are able to lobby the government to abolish net neutrality, they now have enough monopoly and power so that they don't have to pretend to be patriotic anymore. In many municipalities, the telecom companies have exclusive access to the utility poles so even Google Fiber can't build new Internet access. Let alone common folks like you and me. And Municipal Internet is just not happening. Here is the list of states with conditional or total ban, or minefield in their laws.

I still want to know how you got your Internet. You seem ingenuously optimistic.

Not coming back down "slightly". This is the start of a dramatic population decline, essentially the 20th Century population rise in reverse, bringing their population back down to 1900 levels in 2100. A little after 2100 the population of Japan with be only 1/3 of its peak of 2005: 40 million instead of 120 million.

To change this the fertility rate will need to increase. It is currently 1.46, it needs to climb to 2.1 or so, almost 50% higher, to stabilize the population. Even if they can develop policies to turn this around, these things change slowly (so far it is not changing at all). They are committed to the first 50 years of the decline, at least.

On the bright side, meeting carbon emission reduction goals will be much easier!

Just sit back and relax. Let someone else do the driving.

To be fair "these days" was referring to 2011, when that article by Sanders was written. A time when the Venezuelan economy was rebounding. Two years before Maduro was even sworn in.

To be really fair, when someone predicts something and their prediction turns out accurate, then their hypothesis is *probably* correct.

Like if, for example, someone in 2011 said "Socialist policies don't really work, mostly", and Sanders points to Venezuela as an argument that they do indeed work, the future collapse of Venezuela provides support for the statement "Socialist policies don't really work, mostly", not for whatever counter-argument Sanders was attempting to make.

Another example to clarify: if I were to say, right now, that BTC is not really a currency and you point to its use by $fraction of retailers as proof that it is a currency, any future decline in BTC acceptance by retailers adds support for my assertion, not for your counter-argument. A future rise in % BTC acceptance by retailers may provide the support for your counter-argument, but current cherry-picked examples do not.

Predictive power beats single-data-point examples when proving or disproving a hypothesis. Pointing to a single example only works when the assertion is an existentialist one ("All $FOO are unworkable" needs only a single counter-example to disprove, while "$FOO is not long-term viable" cannot be disproved with a single counter-example).

The FUBAR otherwise known as the Venezuelan economy is what happens when you over-leverage your economy and bet on oil prices permanently remaining at an all time high. Conflating Bernie's brand of social democracy with Chavista style socialism and then pointing at Vesezuela as an example that Bernie's ideas don't work is simplistic to say the least.

Except that in this case Bernie was the one one conflating his ideas with Venezuela.

To be fair "these days" was referring to 2011, when that article by Sanders was written. A time when the Venezuelan economy was rebounding. Two years before Maduro was even sworn in.

To be really fair, when someone predicts something and their prediction turns out accurate, then their hypothesis is *probably* correct.

Like if, for example, someone in 2011 said "Socialist policies don't really work, mostly", and Sanders points to Venezuela as an argument that they do indeed work, the future collapse of Venezuela provides support for the statement "Socialist policies don't really work, mostly", not for whatever counter-argument Sanders was attempting to make.

Another example to clarify: if I were to say, right now, that BTC is not really a currency and you point to its use by $fraction of retailers as proof that it is a currency, any future decline in BTC acceptance by retailers adds support for my assertion, not for your counter-argument. A future rise in % BTC acceptance by retailers may provide the support for your counter-argument, but current cherry-picked examples do not.

Predictive power beats single-data-point examples when proving or disproving a hypothesis. Pointing to a single example only works when the assertion is an existentialist one ("All $FOO are unworkable" needs only a single counter-example to disprove, while "$FOO is not long-term viable" cannot be disproved with a single counter-example).

The FUBAR otherwise known as the Venezuelan economy is what happens when you over-leverage your economy and bet on oil prices permanently remaining at an all time high. Conflating Bernie's brand of social democracy with Chavista style socialism and then pointing at Vesezuela as an example that Bernie's ideas don't work is simplistic to say the least.

To be fair "these days" was referring to 2011, when that article by Sanders was written. A time when the Venezuelan economy was rebounding. Two years before Maduro was even sworn in.

To be really fair, when someone predicts something and their prediction turns out accurate, then their hypothesis is *probably* correct.

Like if, for example, someone in 2011 said "Socialist policies don't really work, mostly", and Sanders points to Venezuela as an argument that they do indeed work, the future collapse of Venezuela provides support for the statement "Socialist policies don't really work, mostly", not for whatever counter-argument Sanders was attempting to make.

Another example to clarify: if I were to say, right now, that BTC is not really a currency and you point to its use by $fraction of retailers as proof that it is a currency, any future decline in BTC acceptance by retailers adds support for my assertion, not for your counter-argument. A future rise in % BTC acceptance by retailers may provide the support for your counter-argument, but current cherry-picked examples do not.

Predictive power beats single-data-point examples when proving or disproving a hypothesis. Pointing to a single example only works when the assertion is an existentialist one ("All $FOO are unworkable" needs only a single counter-example to disprove, while "$FOO is not long-term viable" cannot be disproved with a single counter-example).

To be fair "these days" was referring to 2011, when that article by Sanders was written. A time when the Venezuelan economy was rebounding. Two years before Maduro was even sworn in.

United has, or used to have, an advertising campaign where they talk about how great their service is. Here's an example. It shows all flights to one destination, and then one, solitary flight to "friendly". I think they intended to have a smiley face effect, but all I thought when I saw it was that if I wanted "friendly" it was at another airport.

Never mind "correlation != causation," first you have to find a correlation.

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I don't believe there is a device in existence that can receive, decode, and display porn on a budget of less than 2 watts per hour

Of course there are. A NSFW example from 1890:
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x86 is hard to decompile. It doesn't have fixed length instructions, so it is difficult to figure out where opcodes begin and end. It is even possible to write code that can execute two different sequences of instructions by offsetting the instruction pointer by a byte. I don't think any decompiler could deobfusticate that.

The simple code dumper that comes with garden variety debugger won't easily deobfuscate that. (You need to manually ask the debugger to start dumping from the 2 overlapping point).

That why, the best decompilers available in the 90s used some sort of virtual machine to follow through the execution flow, and be able to distinguish such kind of "frame shifts" (that's actually a biology term, I've forgotten what the proper CS term is), and also be able to understand a bit of self-modifying code.
(Basically, the decompiler will notice that various part of the code make calls into the same region but at an odd offset, and will automatically try dumping with from each overlapping point)

Makes it also possible to put actually-useful label/names into variable. (call something "sound_frequency" instead of "var184" because by following the data flow, the decompiler release that this is the parameter the is output to the PC-Speaker tone generator).

Sourcer by V-Com was one such good decompiler.
(I managed to learn quite a ton of tricks like PCM play on the PC Speaker, tweaked graphical modes, etc. simply by using sr to inspect interesting executables.
I even manage to desinfect a cracked game that was saddly being distributed infected with some virus)

With the sex abuse scandals out in force, and abusive men in full retreat all across the cultural spectrum, it seems like a poor idea for CAH to choose to be in the spotlight. In July 2014, a woman came forward with her account of having been raped by Max Temkin, one of the creators of Cards Against Humanity. The original post of him denying it is password protected, but this analysis is still open. Whatever the truth of the situation, the whole thing reads a little like, "I'm sorry if you thought I sexually assaulted you, but I definitely did not."

He casts himself as a male feminist and a good social justice person, but we know now from Weinstien, Franken, Laurer, and all the rest that the loudest voices for women are always the worst offenders. There's no secret why, they're trying to head off accusations by pretending to be for women's rights. Even Wil Wheaton supported Max Tempkin. Rapists aren't monsters and that's why they're scary. Tempkin thought it would be funny to include a card titled "Surprise Sex" but in light of the atmosphere today it sure makes him look like a different person, doesn't it?

Indeed, I can't find any stats indicating that women ever made up more than about 1/3 of programmers, let alone > 50%.

https://computinged.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/programmer-numbers.png

QED:

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What data is there to push the anthropomorphic global climate change concept? Actual real data, not output from models. Because the actual data shows sea level changes incredibly linear for the last ~150 years, the actual warming being a lot less than the models predict, and the modeled sensitivity of climate to CO2 levels being a factor of 2 to 3 too high

There is no data to push an anthropomorphic climate change concept.

Definition of anthropomorphic
1 : described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes
        anthropomorphic deities
        stories involving anthropomorphic animals

2 : ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things
        anthropomorphic supernaturalism
        anthropomorphic beliefs about nature

The word you want is anthropogenic.

Definition of anthropogenic
: of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature
  anthropogenic pollutants

Regarding sea level changes being linear for the last ~150 years here is a statistician's analysis of that. It doesn't appear linear to me.

Sea level rise has accelerated

Trump looking at the eclipse with no protection on his eyes.

The one that really gave me a laugh was the one where he's looking at the eclipse and pointing to it, in case any of the White House staff forgot that the sun is in the sky and doesn't shine out of his ass.

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A heartbleed-esque attack due to both keys and the packet buffer going on the heap. I don't get all the specific details, but it could convince the remote server to barf an arbitrary size packet back to it including whatever was currently on the stack.

This is a project that has been around for 3+ years and has been claimed secure by its developers. Either the developers are inept, it was a genuine mistake, or it was malicious.

Regardless of which it was, it has potentially compromised hundreds to thousands of nodes in the i2p network, as well as every service running on them. Even worse i2pd is mostly russian developers and commonly used among privacy oriented russians trying to stay off state surveillance. If this has been exploited in the wild (which would only be discovered through log correlation with full packet logging on a targetted honeypot system), it means that potentially thousands of russians can now be directly targetted by their government, and that users of any of their services could be connected to compromised hidden services believing them to be verified and safe.

All it takes with crypto is one wrong bug in a popularly used project and it can compromise the security of thousands to billions of users.

https://eyalitkin.wordpress.co... 'GarlicRust' has full details for anyone interested.

Fact free post is easily disproved

Nobody in their right mind spends $23,000 on a picture of a cat.

I paid more than that for this one. I still think I got a pretty good deal.

Furthermore you demand evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine but provide none for the Western over throw of the Ukraine government.

That's like asking for evidence that the Bush Administration was full of crap about Iraq's WMD's and role in 911. Remedial current events here.

Before the coup, the assistant Secretary of State was on video bragging about spending $5 billion to 'give Ukraine the future it deserves' - and then Americans whine about imaginary interference in our elections. The same assistant secretary of state was also recorded picking post-coup leaders.

The United States immediately recognized the junta as illegitimate after the blatantly unconstitutional vote to remove Yanukovych from power, which itself was based on a known false flag operation:

• "So the chief of the government's security forces, the head of the opposition's security forces, and the snipers themselves all admit the snipers were killing both protesters and police."

And if that wasn't enough, the Vice President's son woke up one morning and just happened to find himself a top executive at a Ukraine energy company.

• "Isn't that a bit fishy? Why do you say that?

  Because he's the vice-president's son! That's a coincidence. "This is totally based on merit," said Burisma's chairman, Alan Apter.

  He doesn't sound very Ukrainian. He's American, as is the other new board member, Devon Archer.

  Who? Devon Archer, who works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz.

  Who? Christopher Heinz...John Kerry's stepson."

The IMF also picked up their entire book of rules and threw it in a paper shredder to give the illegitimate government a legitimate loan:

• The IMF broke four of its rules by lending to Ukraine:
  (1) Not to lend to a country that has no visible means to pay back the loan (the "No More Argentinas" rule, adopted after the IMF's disastrous 2001 loan to that country).
  (2) Not to lend to a country that repudiates its debt to official creditors (the rule originally intended to enforce payment to U.S.-based institutions).
  (3) Not to lend to a country at war - and indeed, destroying its export capacity and hence its balance-of-payments ability to pay back the loan. Finally
  (4), not to lend to a country unlikely to impose the IMF's austerity "conditionalities." Ukraine did agree to override democratic opposition and cut back pensions, but its junta proved too unstable to impose the austerity terms on which the IMF insisted.

So the United States only spent billions to subvert Ukraine's democracy, recognized a blatant coup as a legitimate impeachment, immediately gave billions in aid to the junta, and then sends the highest number of troops to Eastern Europe under the premise that Russia is a threat.

And American Exceptionalists like yourself just eat that shit up. With a spoon. You didn't learn a damned thing from the lies about Iraq and Afghanistan, did you?

I meant exactly what I wrote. New generation is a mix of natural gas, solar, and wind. Of that mix, solar is the fastest growing, having gone from almost nothing at the start of the decade to the largest component (by installed capacity) in 2016 (there was a small dip in Q1 2017, but it was still huge). Now, to be fair, NG has higher capacity factors. But (ignoring the Q1 blip), it's clear what the long-term trend is. Wind is roughly holding its own, while solar is steadily eating up NG's share.

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Slow news day, /.?

Also, more to the point, new electricity generation in the US (and most of the developed world) is a mix of wind, solar and natural gas. Modern natural gas baseload plants (combined cycle), BTW, are around 60% efficient, not 40%. Coal is dying.

When you add new load to the grid, they're not filling that load with coal; they're filling it with renewables.

It gets worse. Some of them are probably still using Thinkpads, even though they're made by Lenovo. Now you'll say "No worries, if they re-image them they can avoid any spyware Lenovo put in there at the behest of the Chinese government".

Uh yeah, that won't help. Lenovo uses the WIndows Platform Binary feature to reinstall it. Basically you put an executable file into one of the ACPI tables. Windows copies it to disk and then runs it. With Administrator access. Probably more than Administrator access actually - I bet a native executable has more privilege than one running with Administrator rights on the Win32 subsystem does.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

To pull this off, the LSE exploits Microsoft's Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) feature. This allows PC manufacturers and corporate IT to inject drivers, programs and other files into the Windows operating system from the motherboard firmware.

The WPBT is stored in the firmware, and tells Windows where in memory it can find an executable called a platform binary to run. Said executable will take care of the job of installing files before the operating system starts.

"During operating system initialization, Windows will read the WPBT to obtain the physical memory location of the platform binary," Microsoft's documentation states.

"The binary is required to be a native, user-mode application that is executed by the Windows Session Manager during operating system initialization. Windows will write the flat image to disk, and the Session Manager will launch the process."

Crucially, the WPBT documentation stresses:

The primary purpose of WPBT is to allow critical software to persist even when the operating system has changed or been reinstalled in a "clean" configuration ... Because this feature provides the ability to persistently execute system software in the context of Windows, it becomes critical that WPBT-based solutions are as secure as possible and do not expose Windows users to exploitable conditions.

Oh dear. Secure as possible? Not in this case: security researcher Roel Schouwenberg found and reported a buffer-overflow vulnerability in the LSE that can be exploited to gain administrator-level privileges.

I.e. even if you reinstall them from a known clean image, they can still regrow the amputated LSE. And even if the LSE is not spyware, it contains exploitable vulnerabilities that a third party could use to install whatever they wanted. Lenovo didn't do this in Thinkpads, but they could.

At the moment the US is in the midst of media created paranoia about Russian hackers. Honestly if I were in charge of cybersecurity I'd be a lot more worried that the Chinese spy services would use something like LSE, with or without the cooperation of Lenovo, to spy on sensitive stuff.

And of course it's not just Lenovo laptops. There's Huawei phones and routers. Or indeed US brands which make routers in China could have either hacked firmware loaded onto them or the Chinese spy agencies could find an stockpile vulnerabilities in the manufacturer's firmware.

And then you have companies like XiaoMi with their young pioneer uniformed bunny signifying their devotion to the regime as a Taiwanese friend of mine pointed out

https://hungermarketingchina.w...

If you buy US stuff, you expect the US companies to cooperate with the NSA. If you buy Chinese stuff you expect Chinese companies to cooperate with its Chinese equivalents. XiaoMi's Young Pioneer bunny is none to subtle sign by the company that they're pro regime and it's not unreasonable to assume if the government asked them to help it out with national security they'd say yes.

Of course I can see

The truth

So every one of your "73 predictions" used 1977 as a baseline? Either you found a whole lot of 40 year old "models", or you are full of bullcrap. It is hard to tell since of the 73, exactly this many are actually named or cited: 0.

Odd how some scientists are taken for their intent but their critics are held at their word.

The truth is that scientific models that fail in their predictions aren't scientific. 73 models that fail in their predictions indicate an unscientific field.

What's the ratio of ship/cargo/fuel mass on a big container ship? I've only ever dug into fishing vessels.

Part of the problem you get into is that the fuel consumption of a ship isn't so much to do with its physical size, but its mass. The more mass, the more volume you have under the water as buoyancy counteracting that mass; they're directly related, and the latter is directly related with drag and thus energy consumption. On the other hand, it means that ships gain a lot from improved construction methods and materials in order to reduce mass. Most large ships are still just objects made of geometrically simple pieces of mild steel welded / bolted together (very different from how airplanes and cars are made); more complicated part geometries (with advanced steel alloys used in key places) can significantly reduce mass. Scale is the reason for the difference, of course (container ships are *huge*), but scaleup of more mass-efficient construction methods would go a long way toward reducing energy demand - at least as far as the ship's own mass goes.

One of the core issues for hydrogen in cars is storing sufficient quantities of it, high pressure vessel storage are heavy, but as you get larger in size the storage vessel the less of the weight of the fuel storage system the vessel takes up compared to what can be stored.

Unfortunately, that's not actually true when it comes to pressure vessels. The volume to surface area grows linearly with the radius, yes, but the thickness also grows with size to maintain a given level of stress And dear YHVH I don't want to picture the result of a container-ship-sized hydrogen tank failure in a port. At atmospheric pressure, hydrogen burns at 4-75% mixing ratios and can detonate (which natural gas can't do at all) between something like 18-56%. And takes less than 1/10th the ignition energy of natural gas (almost anything will set it off). Combine that with pressures higher than a scuba tank.... Also, liquid hydrogen is even worse. Air in contact with liquid hydrogen freezes out into a high-explosive slush. As for all hydrogen, while it doesn't pool at the surface, it pools under overhangs (which ships tend to have in abundance), embrittles metals, leaks through almost anything, and even does weird things like leak into pipes, follow them to their destination, then pool there.

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Tut tut! Now you're making a claim with no evidence.

No. You're committing the logical fallacies of negative proof and wishful thinking. You have no credibility. Too bad.

Tut tut! Now you're making a claim with no evidence.

No. You're committing the logical fallacies of negative proof and wishful thinking. You have no credibility. Too bad.

"AppLocker is not implementable using DAC on Linux. It checks digital signatures on binaries and libraries to enforce security and where this does not exist you can use hashes. "

Digital Signatures! WOW!!!! So in other words it can do, on a limited basis, what Linux does for every single binary and has for a decade? Newsflash, every binary installed on your Linux system has already been verified with a digital signature. Sure it doesn't re-verify at runtime, because that would be stupidly costly. It is guaranteed to be correct unless someone with privilege messes with it, and if someone has the privilege to mess with it and is a malicious actor you are already hosed either way on both platforms.

"BitLocker is not comparable to the FDE on Linux, as key escrow/recovery is conveniently tied into Active Directory"

That's an awesome trick. Somehow the system mounts the disk and boots, and then checks the key to see if it can mount the disk.

"Show me the TPM integration on current RHEL or Ubuntu versions thatâ(TM)s supported by the vendor!"

Here you go. (I note that you had to add the "supported by the vendor" qualifier that you know is bullshit to hedge your bets. In other words, what if I'm incompetent! I certainly understand your concern.)

"Where does Linux have this again?"

You keep asking the same wrong question. Show me how Linux accomplishes this goal the same way Windows does" The whole point is that it accomplishes the same goals in a different way that is smarter and better. All these things that make sense are possible with Linux, and the ones that don't might be too, but we are smart enough not to do it that way. Keys to decrypt the full disk are available on a server. That's so fucking precious :-)